Origin Quotes

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.